Since 2021, when composer Helena Cánovas Parés won the Carmen Mateu European Award for Young Opera and Dance Artists, she knew what would happen in August 2024. "I'd been marking this summer on my calendar for years," she explains. The culmination of many months of work came on August 8th at the Castell de Perelada Festival, with the premiere of her opera. Don Juan does not exist, which reinterprets the myth of Don Juan and pays tribute to women artists who have been silenced.